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  • James Madison: A Biography

    • ASIN: 0813912652
    • ISBN: 0813912652
    • Brand: Brand: University of Virginia Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press

    The best one volume biography of Madison’s life, Ketcham’s biography not only traces Madison’s career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man."... [Read More]

  • The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President

    • ASIN: 081299275X
    • ISBN: 9780812992755
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president“In order to understand America and its Constitution, it is necessary to understand James Madison.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bests... [Read More]

  • James Madison: Writings (LOA #109) (Library of America Founders Collection)

    • ASIN: 1883011663
    • ISBN: 1883011663
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    Over 200 years after the founding of the federal republic, James Madison remains the most important political thinker in American history. The prime framer of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Madison was also a brilliant expositor of the new republican government and its underlying principles. His eloquent and insightful writing on freedom ... [Read More]

  • James Madison (The American Presidents Series)

    • ASIN: 0805069054
    • ISBN: 0805069054
    • Manufacturer: Times Books

    A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father.Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress. Madison oversaw the first foreign w... [Read More]

  • James Madison: A Life Reconsidered

    • ASIN: B00G3L0ZUU
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney   Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; it  features James Madison among its vibrant cast of characters. This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of ... [Read More]

  • James Madison

    • ASIN: 0465063802
    • ISBN: 9780465063802
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    A vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution"James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story--although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries--is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the F... [Read More]

  • The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

    • ASIN: 030681918X
    • ISBN: 030681918X
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    From the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America's fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empireIn this compelling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the epic story of James Monroe (1758-1831)-the last of America's Founding Fathers-who transformed a small, fr... [Read More]

  • Presidents of War

    • ASIN: 0307409600
    • ISBN: 9780307409607
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders a... [Read More]

  • James Madison and the Making of America

    • ASIN: 0312625006
    • ISBN: 0312625006
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen -- as "The Father of the Constitution; -- to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influenced the spirit of today's United States. Goodreads... [Read More]

  • John Adams

    • ASIN: B000FC0QHA
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

    • ASIN: 0143131834
    • ISBN: 9780143131830
    • Brand: Sentinel
    • Manufacturer: Sentinel

    The mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation.   When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt and needed its economy to ... [Read More]

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    • ASIN: 0525434690
    • ISBN: 0525434690
    • Brand: VINTAGE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    National BestsellerNominated for the Academy Award for Best DocumentaryTo compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin’s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as th... [Read More]

  • James Madison

    • ASIN: 1103537342
    • ISBN: 1103537342
    • Manufacturer: BiblioLife

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this wo... [Read More]

  • Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

    • ASIN: 0735224714
    • ISBN: 0735224714
    • Brand: PENGUIN PRESS
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subseq... [Read More]

  • The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond

    • ASIN: 1592280838
    • ISBN: 1592280838
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

    At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripp... [Read More]

  • The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812

    • ASIN: 1621574784
    • ISBN: 1621574784
    • Brand: Regnery History
    • Manufacturer: Regnery History

    It's unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It's unimaginable because in 1814 enemies didn't fly overhead, they marched through the streets; and for 26 hours in August, the British enemy marched through Washington, D.C. and set fire to government buildings, including the U.S. Capitol and t... [Read More]

  • The Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison

    • ASIN: 0874512018
    • ISBN: 0874512018
    • Brand: Brand: Brandeis
    • Manufacturer: Brandeis University Press

    An authentic and responsible selection of Madison’s writings.

  • James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity

    • ASIN: 0813912660
    • ISBN: 0813912660
    • Brand: Brand: University of Virginia Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press

    A biography of James Monroe who became the fifth president of the United States in 1816. Ammon recreates his remarkable career, through his service in the revolutionary army, the Confederation Congress, to his exertions in James Madison's cabinet and his subsequent presidency.

  • The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

    • ASIN: 080417248X
    • ISBN: 080417248X
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    In The Quartet, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph Ellis tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible—Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and James Madison:  why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decid... [Read More]

  • The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

    • ASIN: B000Q9ITGW
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

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